Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10

old-faShioncd hanA Is, spin on a
little wheel with Il foot treadle, have
the most primitive warning bars, and
weave most laltogioresly ri Il rude loom.
But the cloth they make viii wear for
ever. and the colofS they stse are All
fast. /. i II great pleasure, We might
almost say shock, IL encounter soch
honest work in these times. The Aea-
( lians grow u yellow or nankeen sort OF
cotton, which without requiring any
/ dive is woven into IA handsome yellow
stun. When We departed Andonta
/ slipped into the door-Nard, and return
! ell with Il rose for each of uS. IAN
I cied she was loath to have us ~, amt
that the visit was IN event in the "
otoHv Of her single life.
Emharkiu@ again On the placid
stream. We moved along through II
land of peace. The houses vi the Aca-
dians are scattered along the bayou at
considerable distance, apart. The
voyager seems to he III an unoceupicd
country. when Suddenly the turn NJ the
stream shows him Il farmhouse, with
its little lauding.Vharf. boats, and per-
han, a schooner moorcd 1T the bank,
and behind il cultivated fields and Il
friu~,. of trees. In the blossominS
time of the year. when the birds are
most active. these scenes are idyliic.
The AcadiauS are fond of their
homes. 1t is not the fashion for the
Young people To 20 away to better
their condition. Few young men have
60. F.,,,, homo AZ Now
Orleans. They marry young, and sell
tie down near the homestead. MIR. LIE
Blame has a colony of his descendants
about him. within hail of his door.
II must he large. and his race must be
prolific. Judging by the number OF
small children who gathered at the
homestead to have a sly peep at the
strangers. They took small interest IN
the war, and it had few attractions for
them. The CONSUMPTION carried away
many of their young men, but am
told they did not make very good sol
diers, not because they were not stat
wart and brave, but because they were
so intolerabiv homesick that they de
serted whenever they had n chance
The men whom we saw were most o,
them fine athletic fellows, with honest
dark, s~un-browned faces; some of thu
children were very pretty, but the wo
men usually showed the effects OF isola
ton and toll, and had the common
p~lainness of French peasants. The.
are a self-supporting community, rals'
their own cotton, corn, and sugar, ant
for the most part manufacture thel
own clothes, and articles Of househol'
use. Some of the cotton jeans, strlpe'
with blue, indigo-dyed, made into gan
ments for men and women, and tn
blankets, plain yellow Grom the nativ
nankecn cotton), curiously clouded
are very pretty and seryiceable. Fun
Their than that their habits of living AZ
= simple, and their ways primitive,
saw few eccentricities. The peculiar
: ity of this community is in its freedol
l from all the hurry and worry and il
formation of our modern life. L hay
t read that the .allants train their hit
t horses to prance and curvet and rei
and fidget about, and that these al
: called ..courtin' horses and are use
when a Young mar goes counting,
f impress his mistress with his man
e horsemanship. I have seen the
: horses perform under the saddle, hut
5 was not so fortunate as to see an
: counting going on.-Chartes D"d6
Vdrner, IN Harper'S Mdgazine.